| The Heat is On! |

I’ve been thinking a lot these days.. about family, babies, pregnancy, nurturing/raising a child, maintaining a healthy/happy marriage, jobs/career, purpose etc.

Right now, at this present moment, I am very blessed.

I have an extremely doting husband who loves me to bits and whom I love very much too; a great family who’s always there for me whom we always have fun together; 2 puppies who are really naughty but whom can always find their way back into our hearts; a good job that is very near home (haha!) and a home that is slowly but surely building its way up so that we would have a place we can finally call “our home” in about 2 years’ time or earlier, hopefully.

So I’m glad, I truly am.

Been hearing of couples trying for a baby for years and still nothing. Yet there are those that do not even need to try and they are “accidentally” pregnant. And I feel for the former; it’s sad. Maybe aging has upped my maternal instincts to a few notches but trust me when I say I can fully empathize with couples who are unable to conceive.

Talk about age. The big 3 scares most women, myself included. You think about the things you can’t do, things you have to consider before doing, and things to quickly do before you can’t do them anymore.

We’ve just been married for about 3 months and everyone in my new company (who knows that I am a newly-wed, all thanks to my very enthusiastic colleague who helps me announce) has been telling me, “DON’T PLAN FOR A BABY”. And just today, another colleague said how we should let nature take its course. Even colleagues are so pro-family, what more of my own family and my in-laws?

So ladies and gentlemen, its official – the heat is on and the pressure is up.

We have never felt the need or rush to start a family so soon (and strangely we still don’t haha!) but hey, men’s plans change all the time so that we could be in line with our Abba Father’s plans! His ways are not the ways of men so don’t even think for one second that you can understand the intention behind God’s plans. But what I do understand is: a baby is truly a gift from God and its very precious. Even typing that sentence brought tears to my eyes; I am soooo pms-ing.

We need to learn how to cherish every life, no matter how little or insignificant it may be. And also learn to let go and let God.

Have a great weekend everyone!

| Happy Birthday Singapore! |

haven't felt this patriotic in a while..maybe its because of the horrible rumor of our founding father which made me sad.

to set the record straight, I love my home and my country and have deep respect for the man who made all these possible even though I don't agree with everything his party does.

ah..this week is a short work week and half the world is on leave, including all the bosses who have gone back for summer holiday! how nice..working closer to home is a nice feeling, wish I can stay in this company for a long long time to come!

fell terribly ill last week and had to skip work..and now it's developed into a very nasty cough that is disrupting my sleep and annoying my colleagues :/ even my parents are infected now, I think. so I went to the doctor at healthway yesterday (because my usual clinic is closed on public holidays) and there is a $10 public holiday surcharge?!?!? extortion. what to do? still had to pay and see the doc to get stronger medicine so the germs and viruses in my throat will DIE!!! I hate coughing, that is like the worst kind of sickness to befall on me. I'd rather a runny nose, gastric flu and vomit or diahhrea big time than to cough and cough like I have TB or something.

we went KL last weekend and it was so much fun I wish it was longer! hubby says we can go there again during their next sale period - YAY!!!

| I'm a Missus Now! |

So I’ve been a missus for about 2.5 months now and married life is treating us well!

No plans for a baby yet though I had been wanting one..hubby says he wants to spend MORE time with me ALONE…like 11 years together wasn’t enough? HA!

Well well, even though I know my own biological clock is happily ticking away and its definitely easier to recover from pregnancy if I have a child at a younger age, BUT if my hubby is not for it then I guess I have to respect his decision. Unless of course it is God’s gift to us, then we would start to question the quality of the rubber huh? Ah-ha, but if that happens then we would be in for a treat! But seriously, I hope to get a boy! So im starting to strengthen myself now (you know its never too early to start hehe) and also by eating more red meat (I never used to). I’ve heard that eating beef in particular helps in getting a boy LOL ;p

Anyways, what I really wanna talk about today is about Seven Dresses (SD).

Hmm, so SD has been around for about 2 years now and we’ve always had lukewarm responses for our launches. A couple of factors, in particular the collections – especially the earlier collections – were named biblically. And though I know that makes non-believers uncomfortable, I held on to my belief that the ultimate purpose of this blogshop was to let people know more about God. Even now I no longer name my clothes after certain biblical names, I still throw in a verse and tell people the learning points and how its impacted me personally.

The second factor could be in more recent months, I had resorted to modeling on my own even though I have said many many times that I know I am nowhere near model-material, let alone a UK6 but that the sole reason for me modeling on my own was so that we could save cost and in turn, pass all these savings back to our customers. But I guess people are still superficial; they only want to look and buy pretty things. They cannot stand looking at ugly or fat people for one minute and one passer-by even went as far as to attack me personally. So me being human became naturally upset. I wasn’t angry with that person who wrote that, though I must admit I was terribly affected.

Guess what I really wanted to say to that person is:

Don’t you dare discriminate ladies who are fat or have bigger-than-online-shopping-crowd-figures, because everyone deserves the chance to shop and buy blogshop clothes online.

Maybe it never occurred to anyone but modeling and putting myself under the constant scrutiny of the public eye is something I would never ask for if I had more money to hire a model. That is why I have to consistently abide in the Lord to stay strong and ignore people’s harsh comments about myself. Because if after all people who say that I have a lousy figure, they are really criticizing my Abba Father, right? For I am “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14) in my Creator’s image.

Its hard maintaining a blogshop I guess..when you have friends who are supportive only on the surface and yet when you ask them to help share SD’s album on their FB wall etc, they don’t.

So it is with a heavy heart that I am announcing that I may give Seven Dresses up if things don’t improve by the end of 2012. From now until the end of the year, Seven Dresses will have new arrivals on a regular basis and we will try to shoutout on every platform possible within our means, but if our customer base still don’t increase and sales still do not improve then I guess Seven Dresses will fold. It was great fun and considered hubby and mine “baby” but after 2.5 years, a revamp and countless sales and promotions, and if things are still the same as before then I guess we have a lot of questioning and reflecting to do.